Example sentences of "[vb past] you be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You used it again when you 'd just got off the train from Paddington tonight , when you pretended you were waiting for Mrs Downes — ’ |
| 2 | I heard you were living with a cabinet member 's daughter and fighting for Gay Rights in Fast Cheam ? ’ |
| 3 | Er — I heard you was looking for Ron . |
| 4 | In The Towering Inferno you always felt you were standing outside the fire , in Backdraft you 're right in the middle of it . ’ |
| 5 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 6 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 7 | And erm , we did pray for you , several of us prayed for you when we knew you were going to Nepal . |
| 8 | Can I ask you what your reaction was when you knew you were going to be cautioned and not prosecuted ? |
| 9 | ‘ Now you know I would n't leave you unless I knew you were going to be all right . |
| 10 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 11 | ‘ Then how do you explain the fact that the kidnappers phoned urgently , demanding to see Ubaldo in person , at a time when you were still in Rome and no one supposedly knew you were coming except the authorities ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Capron said he knew you were working on the Mills case and that we must have discussed it together . ’ |
| 13 | We thought you was looking for us , that 's all . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you was goin' to be a famous pilot this mornin' , ’ retorted George . |
| 15 | I thought you was going to Marion 's this year ? |
| 16 | oh I 'm sorry I thought you was talking about ninety four , ninety five |
| 17 | Well I thought you was talking about mattresses airing in front of the fire . |
| 18 | I thought you were trying to actually pin responsibility not to organisations , but to people that here was Mrs Thatchers philosophy really working and market was gon na discipline pay out their own pockets . |
| 19 | It 's alright I thought you were trying to cos of the door |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you were referring to that episode at Rocamar . |
| 21 | ‘ Thought you were bleeding to death ? |
| 22 | Oh I thought you were calling from . |
| 23 | I thought you were looking after her . |
| 24 | I thought you were expecting to — ’ |
| 25 | Newcastle , well I put , I thought you were staying to tea so I put six eggs on |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you were staying till Friday . ’ |
| 27 | No , thought you were going through the erm , plans , this is all the background history to the er , house . |
| 28 | I thought you were going through the fucking the bollard ! |
| 29 | Sorry , I thought you were going onto say and the next one would also be . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought you were going with your mother to see Mr Penver this morning ? ’ |